New Orleans Slave House Tour

The story of laura is told by guides who draw their source material from the journals of four generations of creole women who lived there and includes detailed and sensitive.

New orleans slave house tour. The lalaurie house has had many incarnations before returning to its purpose as a residence. After a guided tour of the main house the civil war encampment exhibit and the slave quarters guests are driven just a bit further down the road to laura plantation. Urban slavery at the owens thomas house slave quarters duration. Harriet martineau writing in 1838 and recounting tales told to her by new orleans residents during her 1836 visit claimed lalaurie s slaves were observed to be singularly haggard and wretched however in public appearances lalaurie was seen to be generally polite to black people and solicitous of her.

The audio picked up the spirits. Accounts of delphine lalaurie s treatment of her slaves between 1831 and 1834 are mixed. Mixed in with present day farms and scattered houses are the restored antebellum era big house plantations some with refurbished outbuildings and slave. No visit to new orleans baton rouge or lafayette in south louisiana would be complete without exploring the new orleans plantations some of america s most interesting and tragic history.

The stories began almost immediately. New orleans. Many have reported seeing the phantom of that young slave girl fleeing across the lalaurie roof. Man visits haunted slave plantation in louisiana very errie.

It was a saloon and a girl s school a music conservatory an apartment building and a furniture store. It is one of the most popular stops on our new orleans ghost tours.